Stupid Trump stuff

 Daily Kos -  The Trump administration’s proposed budget would cut all funding to specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth who call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. LGBTQ+ youth are at an elevated risk for suicide. In 2021, 45% of LGTBQ+ high school students said they seriously considered suicide in the past year. Since 2022, 988’s LGBTQ+ service has received nearly 1.3 million contacts, including almost 59,000 just this past February, the most recent month of published data.

Daily Kos - The heads of three major big-box stores met with President Donald Trump on Monday, to warn him that in two weeks, store shelves will be bare and prices will skyrocket thanks to his nonsensical trade policy, Axios reported. According to Axios, the CEOs of Home Depot, Target, and Walmart were blunt about the impacts the massive “Liberation Day” tariffs he's placed on China and other major U.S. trade partners will have on consumers and the economy.

"The big box CEOs flat out told him [Trump] the prices aren't going up, they're steady right now, but they will go up. And this wasn't about food. But he was told that shelves will be empty," an unnamed Trump administration official told Axios.  The warning must have really spooked Trump, as Tuesday night he said that he is likely to lower the punishing 145% tariffs he's levied on Chinese imports—though he said the tariffs "won't be zero." 

Guardian -   The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS ) has terminated two grants for Black history and culture that were awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a former plantation in Louisiana that focuses on the truths of slavery and the experiences of people who were enslaved. IMLS provides resources and support to libraries, archives and museums in all 50 states and territories. 

The termination comes as the Trump administration has both gutted federal funding aimed at arts and cultural institutions and has pushed to end state and federal initiatives in support of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Recently, federal webpages that included references to thousands of figures, including Harriet Tubman, Indigenous codetalkers, the US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers, were either removed outright or scrubbed to exclude references to the aforementioned people. After public outcry, some of these pages were restored.

Guardian - Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, Covid and autism. Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day event opening on Thursday at the US president’s resort, Trump National Doral Miami. The event features several anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists who have been brought together by the far-right commentator Charlie Ward.